2017 Vol. 10 Issue 56

The everyday life psychology [Special issue]

This issue is devoted to a new interdisciplinary field, which has been actively developed in the last few years by psychological science. At the same time, it should be noted that today psychology is still lagging behind other areas of knowledge in understanding the subject and structuring the field of everyday life psychology. On the solution of this problem the issue is directed.

It presents articles that examine the psychology of everyday life from different angles. This is a theoretical analysis of the problem of everyday life, actualization of interest to this scientific problem in ​​psychology, and the analysis of the phenomenology of everyday life in sports and cinema, the representation of everyday life in the self-regulation of mental states. The problem of everyday life is also considered in the context of social imaginary, cultural capital and the aesthetic paradigm, which, on the whole, proves the connection between everyday life and the general tendency towards individualization and the creation of an individual life style, life-creation which is associated with everyday creativity.

These works also prove that, despite the difference in positions, on the whole, all authors come to the conclusion that everyday life does not minimize the individuality and creative activity of people, but, on the contrary, directs and structures the manifestations of individual creativity. And this shows the possibility of further development of the psychology of everyday life as a field of science and a sphere of life and life creation.